Automatica, Vol.50, No.11, 2880-2887, 2014
Gain-scheduled synchronization of parameter varying systems via relative H-infinity consensus with application to synchronization of uncertain bilinear systems
The paper considers a problem of consensus-based synchronization of uncertain parameter varying multiagent systems. We present a method for constructing consensus-based synchronization protocol schedules for each agent to ensure it synchronizes with a reference parameter-varying system. The proposed protocol guarantees a specified level of H-infinity transient consensus between the agents. The algorithm uses a consensus-preserving interpolation and produces continuous (in the scheduling parameter) coefficients for the protocol. An application to synchronization of uncertain bilinear systems is discussed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights
Keywords:Large-scale systems;Observer-based synchronization;Distributed robust observers;H-infinity consensus;Bilinear systems